Center for the Study of Democracy and Department of Anthropology with the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine

June 1-2, 2001

SSPB 1208

Friday, June 1

10:00 am – INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

10:15 – 12:30 – CHALLENGING DEMOCRACY

Moderator: Teresa Caldeira, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

James Holston, Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Disjunctive Democracies

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Political Science and American Studies, Université Sorbonne-Paris IV
Fear of the Other: French Cities at a Crossroads

12:30-2:00 – LUNCH

2:00-5:00 – RE-SEGREGATION AND VIOLENCE

Moderator: Victoria Bernal, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Teresa Caldeira, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Violence and Erosions of the Public in Democratic São Paulo

Alan Mabin, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Suburbanization, Segregation, and Metropolitan Governance in the Early twenty-first Century

Anne-Maria Makhulu, Anthropology, University of Chicago
South Africa’s New Urban Segregation: Looking from the Margins

5:00 – 6:00 – RECEPTION

Saturday, June 2

10:00-12:00 – NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF THE PUBLIC

Moderator: Bill Maurer, Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Gerald Frug, Harvard Law School
The Legal Technology of Exclusion

Vicente Rafael, Communication, University of California, San Diego
The Cell Phone and the Crowd: The Question of "Non-Violence" in the Recent Philippine Coup

12:00 – 1:00 – LUNCH

1:00-3:00 – PRIVATE URBANIZATION

Moderator: James Holston, Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Ayfer Bartu, Anthropology, Koç University, Istanbul
Constructing Urban Identity through Fortified Enclaves: A View from Istanbul.

Evan McKenzie, Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
Constructing the Pomerium in Las Vegas

3:00 – 3:30 – COFFEE BREAK

3:30 – 5:00 – ROUND-TABLE WITH ALL PARTICIPANTS: DEMOCRACY, VIOLENCE, AND CITIES